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Reflecting on research carried out in a range of disciplines and contexts, the contributors offer a critical starting point for discussions on how to research the far right ethically, a topic that raises a number of urgent issues. Rejecting the idea of neutrality in research, the collection makes it explicit that this research is always political. Lived experience and reflexivity are key to this book, whether it is the many years spent grappling with the ethical dilemmas posed by researching and engaging with and against the far right, how to simply start in light of the practical and psychological barriers imposed by various actors and ourselves, or how to remain in service to and solidarity with the communities at the sharp end of such politics. Beyond explicitly ethical questions, this book also offers a critical intervention into the field of research on the far right to address issues such as racism, sexism, white supremacy, colonialism and positionality, which must be core to any ethical approach to social research. This collection aims to be a practical contribution to researching the far right and the range of contributors, issues, and approaches provide a broad applicability for researchers broadly understood. As such, it will be valuable to anyone interested in researching, understanding and combating the far right.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, arts and creative practitioners and cultural and community organisations produced work that addressed issues such as the challenges of isolation or created spaces that can enable recovery or renewal. In this collection, authors reflect on how individuals and communities coped, adapting and using creativity in ways that were sometimes everyday and sometimes extraordinary. A spotlight is placed on the rich diversity of research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in response to COVID in this area. Significantly, the volume's chapters look forward from the pandemic experience, presenting case studies and detailed examples that suggest how arts, culture and other community assets might be mobilised, including through co-creation and co-production, to enable greater and more equal access to resources in future. There are valuable lessons that might help us cope and develop resilience now and in similar crises. Threaded through all the contributions, readers will discover a focus on the experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, because of their lived experiences of structural inequalities, or due to mental or physical ill-health or age. These are difficult and complex topics, and there are vital lessons here for policy and for practice in the arts and for provision of health and care.

Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts shares important insights into the effects of the pandemic on live performance in the UK. It features eight projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council between 2020 and 2022 to undertake research that would address the problems caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The researchers share what they discovered from working with practitioners and companies in the live performing arts who rapidly adapted their working practices and the spaces in which they were able to connect safely with audiences, whether digital or outdoors. Several chapters provide evidence of the impacts of digital innovations and telepresence technologies on artists and audiences and shed light on how government discourses and the support structures within the industry affected the mental health of creative practitioners. Addressing policymakers and practitioners, others demonstrate how artists and local government events managers approached programming community-based work outdoors. Throughout, the essays are infused with practical energy, inspired by the creativity and dedication of the practitioners, and mindful of how the pandemic exacerbated the structural and financial precariousness of the workforce in live performing arts. They offer evidence-based reflections on values-led practices in the creative sector that model more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable ways of working. Adaptation and resilience thus contributes to shaping our understanding of the challenges faced by live performing arts at a time of crisis - and how these may be overcome.

Medieval afterlives presents ten new essays which examine the ways traditions of early drama were transformed over time, as well as the inherent capability of the traditions themselves to transform space, audience, time, and belief. The collection, which includes an afterword by Theresa Coletti, is unique in its focus on the dramaturgical and cultural traditions that shaped and were shaped by early English drama until the closing of the theatres in 1642. Framing its argument in terms of traditions, this collection moves beyond the biases imposed by period categories, thereby addressing the continuities of early English drama that persisted in the face of cultural and religious change. The essays demonstrate that, alongside textual records, it is also crucial to look at other physical traces of past theatre traditions, including evidence of embodied memory, non-literary sources and the acknowledgement of audience memory. In so doing, it seeks to refine and deepen our understanding of the richness of early English drama: its copiousness, versatility, and playfulness.

Off white uncovers the hidden history of race and whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe (including Russia/the Soviet Union). It traces the ideological work of whiteness back to the region's constitutive roots in nation-state building and global colonialism. The collection uncovers the work of race and racism through discourses and practices that have rendered them transparent and natural. It does so in studies of the international system of states and empires, from national self-determination struggles through geographic exploration to diplomacy and cultural representation in literature, film, the media industries, exhibition art and music; in intellectual and academic discourses; and across the many avenues of articulating banal nationalism, including everyday artefacts and language. This is an alternative history of Central and Eastern Europe that breaks through the shield of racial innocence in what may be the last geopolitical stronghold where white supremacy is still unacknowledged as the defining mechanism of state power, social hierarchization, and global interconnection.

Land and Labour charts the controversial history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution seven years later. The brainchild of a Welsh-born trade unionist and editor, William Evans, it was the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration. The Society aimed to solve the problems of surplus labour by transforming potters into farmers on land acquired on the Wisconsin frontier. The study examines the industrial background to the emigration scheme, and the establishment of the first settlement in America, the duly named Pottersville. Short of funds and facing competition from Feargus O'Connor's Chartist Land Plan, in 1848 it widened its membership to other trades and regions, opening branches in Lancashire, Scotland, and London and other industrial communities. Over-ambition, relentless criticism and the inherent difficulties of long-distance colonisation brought about its collapse at the beginning of 1851. While many emigrant families remained and prospered, others found less success, with an undetermined number returning to Britain. Land and Labour is based on intensive research into British and American newspapers, passenger lists, census, manuscript, genealogical and other sources. Despite its failure, the potters' emigration scheme was not an unrealistic response to the anxieties and displacements wrought by industrialisation, including fears over mechanisation. Its history offers unique insight into working-class dreams of landed independence in the American West and significantly contributes to our understanding of the complex and contingent character of transatlantic emigration in the nineteenth century.

With the outbreak of WWI and British expansion into the Middle East, certain Bahá'í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders found it necessary to form new relationships with that government and its representatives, relationships which would prove to be of pivotal importance for each and have a lasting impact on future generations. This book, based upon extensive archival research, explores how Bahá'ís in England and Palestine, Muslim missionaries from India based in Woking, and Jews in England on both sides of the Zionist debate understood interactions with the British state and larger imperial culture prior to and during the war. One of the most significant findings of this study is that while an appreciation of diversity tends to be regarded as a modern, postcolonial phenomenon, a way to remedy the unjust remnants of an imperial past, the men and women of the early twentieth century whose words and actions come to life on the pages of this book understood diversity as defining characteristic of the empire itself. They found real meaning and value in the variety of religions, races, languages, nations, cultures and ethnicities that comprised that vast, global entity. This recognition of its diversity, along with certain British liberal ideals, allowed extraordinary individuals to find common ground between that state and their own beliefs, goals and aspirations, thus helping to lay the foundation for the eventual development of the Bahá'í faith as a world religion, a new era of Muslim missionary activity in the West and a Jewish state in Palestine.

Redefining untouchability brings new light to the intellectual life of the B.R. Ambedkar, one of India's most important thinkers of the last century. Usually under the shadow of Indian nationalist such as Gandhi and Nehru, the importance of Ambedkar's political thought remains largely unexplored. Ambedkar's main concern throughout his life was the abolition of untouchability, which he fought throughout his writings and politics. Ambedkar's place in the history of Indian political thought is unique. Coming from one of the most oppressed communities in India, he received doctoral degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. Similarly, Ambedkar familiarised himself with the newest anthropological, political and sociological theories emerging at the turn of the twentieth century. Influenced by the thought of Franz Boas and John Dewey, among others, Ambedkar showed his followers that their condition of oppression was fluid and malleable, it could be changed as it was not dependent on karma from previous lives. By analysing untouchability and its links to religion and ideologies of racial supremacy, Ambedkar exposed untouchability as an economic, political and cultural system designed to oppress Dalits. He demanded political and educational rights to bridge the inequalities present in the lives of his followers. For Ambedkar, India required a social and a political revolution beyond the scope of nationalist aspirations. At a time when inequality and injustice is still rampant in India and elsewhere, recovering the value of Ambedkar's thought is paramount.

The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort of men and women in Britain now entering mid and later life, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this 'revolutionary cohort' breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on an innovative combination of ethnographic fieldwork in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and 'new' - or renewed - intimacies, among women in mid and later life. Beginning with women at a transition point, when they were newly single or newly dating in midlife, the chapters look back over life histories at prior relationship experiences at different life stages, engage with the fine-grain of navigating the terrain of dating and repartnering in midlife, and look forward to hopes for future intimacies. Fieldwork in salsa classes demonstrates the sensory, sensual and affective nature of heteronormativity whilst biographical interviews show how femininity is informed by memories of the past, of the generations that came before and class-based desires. Making important contributions to our understanding of ageing, intimacy and gender this book illuminates the intersections of age, class and whiteness in romance and desire. We see how rather than being revolutionary, a pervasive concern with being respectable throughout the lifecourse endured.

This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. Stimulated by recent scholarship on England's 'long Reformation', this volume provides fresh perspectives on the multifaceted legacy of Reformed Protestantism to the Elizabethan and Stuart Churches, showing how competing notions of Reformed identity often dictated the terms of ecclesiastical and political debate, particularly concerning the boundaries of conformity. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church's government, liturgy, and doctrine. In order to reflect how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume integrates chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity. Its eleven chapters traverse issues of conformity to the Tudor and Stuart Church and show how intrinsically they reflected contesting notions of Reformed identity conceived within a broader European Reformed milieu, but marked by a distinctly English character due to the idiosyncrasies of the Church of England.

This is the first major study to explore the personal and professional lives of Jewish refugees who entered the nursing profession in Britain. In the mid twentieth-century, nursing was nominally a profession but with poor pay and harsh discipline. It was unpopular with British women and in the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. Despite the opportunities war-work offered women, the highly gendered world of mid-twentieth century Britain, meant most remained in feminised occupations. Nursing was promoted as a critical mode of employment. Using a range of personal testimony, the book exposes the value the refugees placed on the profession as a means for escape and financial independence. It also brings into stark relief the Government and nursing elite's opportunistic use of refugees to fulfil an urgent need for nurses. Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession speaks not only to the historical challenges for women refugees, but current threats for migrant workers in the country's health care professions.Following the uneven trajectory of their lives, the book moves from the war years to the latter decades of the twentieth century when changes in the social order enabled more women to enter university and professional life. The refugee nurses, armed as they were, with education and intelligence could have moved out of nursing into more lucrative and socially advantageous work. Yet, most did not. Despite the relatively low numbers, the book demonstrates their considerable influence on nursing practice, education and research.

Agents of European Overseas Empire overhauls our understanding of the early modern European imperial history as well as the extent of the participation of early modern polities in the conduct of European overseas trade and colonisation. Contributions from historians based in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States focus on the 'private' interests, as we would term them today, that initiated the pursuit of overseas commercial and colonising interests during the early modern period. They track the networking of various agents, be they colonisers, traders, and thinkers, who pursued early modern European global interests and who conducted their activities both with and without the approval of polities. These networksconstituted the ligaments that bound these far-flung endeavours to the respective sovereigns but also, paradoxically, exposed the laxity entailed in those ligaments in the form of smuggling and piracy as well as endemic jockeying for economic and political advantage.This collection relegates 'the state' to its appropriate secondary, reactive role in this history, but also avoids exaggerating the place of colonials, especially with respect to conflict with metropolitan interests, in the development of the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish Empires.

Although poverty in the eighteenth century has long been an object of focus for social historians, it has figured only marginally in the intellectual history of the period. This is because it has been assumed that the existence of poverty was rarely problematized before the transformative decade of the 1790s. Yet because the theme of poverty played important roles in many critical issues in European history, it was central to some of the key debates in Enlightenment political thought throughout the period, including the controversies about sovereignty and representation, public and private charity, as well as questions relating to crime and punishment. Indeed, leading thinkers like the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, the French Physiocrats and the Milanese jurist Cesare Beccaria had come to see the fate of the poor as an urgent political question in the middle decades of the century. This book examines some of the most important contributions to these debates, while also ranging beyond the canonical Enlightenment thinkers, to investigate how poverty was conceptualised in the wider intellectual culture, as politicians, administrators and pamphlet writers grappled with the issue. The volume also revisits the question of why and how many governments and men of letters began to address poverty as a social problem in the 1790s. It asks how far the drive to reduce or eliminate want was already underway before the French Revolution, as well as challenging the binary characterisation of debates in the period as a struggle between humanitarian radicals and cold-hearted reactionaries.

This volume of essays analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, information, and beliefs about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explores how English vernacular medical texts of the this period invite cross-comparisons with literary representations of health and medical practitioners, to enrich the picture of medicine in the popular imagination and to provide important perspectives on those questions surrounding authenticity, agency, representation, and accessibility that we might similarly ask about literature. Drawing from a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, our essays engage with a wide range of primary source material. This ranges from canonical to less well known literary and book historical sources, including the poetry of John Arbuthnot and Jane Barker, the life writing of James Boswell, and the novels of Tobias Smollett, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, and 'Mrs. Carver' of the Minerva Press; medical works by George Cheyne and Daniel Turner; and medical material aimed at popular and public audiences, including skincare remedies, anatomical flap-books, the various (self)representations and advertisements of dog-doctors, medical trademarks, and pharmacy labels. Together, this rich array of material demonstrates how popular understanding of medical work and medical figures was informed and misinformed, whether by dishonesty, false marketing or preconceived prejudice, or through being made subordinate to non-medical ends such as comic or satiric productions or political, religious, or socio-cultural priorities. What emerges is a centuries-long 'infodemic' which invites comparisons with our present moment.

Catalonia and Scotland are home to two of the most well-known nationalist movements in Western Europe. In the last few years, debates on autonomy and independence have dominated political discussions in both territories, putting pressure on political elites in Spain and the UK to articulate a positive vision of political partnership and avoid state disintegration. The recent growth ofpro-independence support in Catalonia and Scotland poses an evidentchallenge to the continuation of the Spanish and UK states, but as this book makes clear, so too does the re-emergence of an increasingly intolerant right-wing Spanish nationalism and inflexible British unionism. Nations in flux compares the historical and contemporary trajectories and political dynamics of Catalan and Scottish nationalism. Drawing on a rich collection of interviews with politicians, policy documents and existing research, this book explores the development of territorial politics in both cases since 2010. It analyses the experiences of dramatic moments such as the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that existing approaches to territorial accommodation are inadequate and require reform. Building on these findings, and through the lens of multinational federalism, it reimagines the design and operation of the Catalan and Scottish territorial models. Offering in-depth analysis and a detailed comparison of the Catalan and Scottish cases, this book highlights the increasing relevance of nationalism in contemporary society and makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of territorial politics.

This book examines the everyday struggles and activism arising from the racialised injustices and bordering practices characteristic for today's European countries. Unlike most social movement literature, the book brings together analyses of antiracist activism and migrant (solidarity) mobilisations, as well as centring everyday struggles rather than protests or mass demonstrations. It elaborates theoretically and empirically how disobedient knowledge is created by racialised minorities and postcolonial migrants living their lives at the crossroad of different kinds of (b)ordering practices, as well as from the often disharmonious and sometimes painful negotiations between differently positioned actors in the everyday struggles of activism, antiracism practices, migrant and solidarity movements, and collaborative research. Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge detects the processes through which border regimes and ordering into racialised, classed and gendered hierarchies are connected to each other, reinforced and challenged in antiracist and migrant (solidarity) activism. It examines resistance and disobedience in the context of social movement practices, art and culture, education and learning, legal and administrative bordering, global coloniality and racial capitalism. It is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international migration, social movement studies, gender studies and education.

The loneliness room uniquely draws upon the art of ordinary people to explore and explain how and why they experience loneliness today. Refusing to hold to a single definition of loneliness, the book instead uses the metaphor of the loneliness room to enable people to submit artistic responses that are personal and political, and which often refute and resist the pathology that is attached to feeling lonely in the world.The loneliness room examines the art and media forms that so often are charged with representing loneliness, taking in photography, paintings, film, the documentary, music and sound, and poetry and literature. The book powerfully shows how these representations create discourses in and around loneliness which lays its cause and consequences and the doors of individuals rather than at the political and economic structures of neo-liberal capitalism.The loneliness room advances the tools and methods of audio-visual ethnography, showing how creative practice affords new opportunities for data gathering. As a book, it transforms not only the way we understand loneliness, but the practices we employ to better understand it.

This book reconstructs the activities of the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust. It reveals how universalised ideas disseminated through the ICCAJ's discourse were used to justify any number of policies related to Jews.

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned goth culture, alongside political and social conditions. Reaching back further into history, he examines key events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music. The art of darkness features interviews with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen.

Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production. This book is about what happens when an essential part of our democratic citizenship, fundamental to our human rights, is reduced to an industry. Culture is not and industry argues that art and culture need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.

Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs' hearts? Countless celebrations of 'the dog-human bond' suggest that they are. Yet 'the bond' does not always come easily to dogs. Dog politics seeks to denaturalise, in different ways, dogs' 'species story, ' the scientific story that claims that being with humans somehow constitutes dogs' evolutionary destiny. This book asks what evidence exists for this story, what choices dogs have but to go along with it, and what expectations, demands, and burdens it places on dogs, on a daily basis. In doing so, it offers an unfamiliar and discomforting account of the lives of domesticated dogs' today. Dog politics is an empirical investigation of dogs in science which makes important theoretical contributions to debates of contemporary significance. It addresses how the connections between animal behaviours and species identities are established in theory and practice. It analyses the enduring entanglement of racism and speciesism, and how the interlocking relations between these prejudices are shaped by the different ways that the categories of 'race' and of species are conceived of in science over time. In the light of the reification and exploitation of dogs' perceived relationality with humans, it looks again at the ethics and politics of intersubjectivity, becoming-with, entanglements. It disputes that species can be separated from storying. Above all, Dog Politics shows how species stories erase the singular individual animal as a figure of theoretical, methodological, ethical, and political value, and with what dire consequences.

Ranging across more than two centuries of literature and the visual arts, this edited collection of twelve original essays examines the compelling, much-overlooked subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, this interdisciplinary study promotes the reconsideration of the vastly under-theorised role of the subliminal in the Gothic. It begins with an exploration of the varied intellectual and cultural matrices of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic, recognising the Gothic's frequent oneiric inspiration, thematic focus, and atmospherics; a line of inspirational transmission and aesthetic experimentation with the subliminal usually signposted by the artists themselves. It goes on to examine the range of literary forms and experimental aesthetics through which these phenomena were conceived - from Horace Walpole's incorporation of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's 'sublime dreams' in The Castle of Otranto into the early Gothic novel and Romantic poetry, through the paintings of Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya, nineteenth-century British and European Gothic novels and short stories, into Surrealism and twenty-first-century visual media. Remaining attentive to the cross-fertilisation between medical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological discourses about sleep and sleep disorders (parasomnias), and their cultural representations, this volume considers Gothic dreams and nightmares in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of metaphysics, morality, rationality, consciousness and creativity. Gothic dreams and nightmares' cross-disciplinary interrogations will have theoretical ramifications for Gothic, literary, and Cultural Studies more broadly.

Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

A penetrating investigation into Solomon Islands' historic switch from alliance with Taiwan to China, shedding light on China's wider foreign policy.

Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for interpretation. -- .